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...something that I'm very interested in, especially since I've gotten to Harvard, seeing racial dynamics on campus," says Estella Diaz '97. "There's a bunch of different kinds of people here but they hardly ever mingle. "It's kind of a pretend diversity...
Economic analysis should be the first principle of authentic leftism. Phony, obfuscatory, elitist French theory became the ticket to ride for an amoral, overpaid, overpraised coterie that is incestuously interconnected from Berkeley and Duke to Princeton and Harvard. These days, its pashas pretend to be doing "cultural studies," an amateurish mishmash of this and that, without scholarly command of any area...
...pretend to be typical people in our fields or representative, so don't blame our fields for us," he said to audience laughter...
Coyle, a senior editor at Outside magazine, shrewdly focuses most of his attention on the kids, not the coaches. He tells his story without moralizing or cynicism, and doesn't pretend that a summer of baseball solved anything. In the end, after a team party at a coach's apartment, the kids get into cars for the drive back to Cabrini, which is still a war zone. This is not the moment for uplifting oratory, and Coyle doesn't spout any. But he does offer a gentle visual image that could be taken for hope: as the cars pull away...
Most devotees of angels don't pretend to have found a way to confound Providence and repel disaster. They do, however, suggest that the very idea of angels seems to act as a means of grace. In Los Angeles, artist Jill D'Agnenica has been scattering angels all across the neighborhoods that were ravaged by riots last year. In April, on the first anniversary of the turmoil, D'Agnenica distributed four 12-in.-tall plaster magenta cherubs at a prominent African-American church. She has continued to set the brightly painted angels ! on street corners, at bus stops, on walls...